clarified by any authorities own upending arrest. nonetheless, in the past 2 hours since comp made this claim key republican figures like house speaker kevin mccarthy, south carolina senator lindsey graham, they have all echoed trump accusations. the manhattan da s indictmen is politically motivated speaker mccarthy going eve further. clay meaty he would use hi powers to investigate somethin that has not actually even happen mike pence, a potential 20 202 potential candidate who wa targeted by the mob who storme the capitol on january six als fell in line with a talkin point. he says he does not think that this is what americans want. watch this just feels like politically-charged prosecutio here for my part i just feel like i is just not want the america people want to see i believ that people understand that if they give voice to this, i this occurs on tuesday, that they need to do so peacefull and in a lawful manner the manhattan distric attorney s office, which i i
ports so explosives, several items that could be used to create additional weapons. authorities doctor arranged for a mental health evaluation for that boy. joining us now to talk about the shooting in tulsa is democratic oklahoma state representative melissa pravenzano. thank you so much for being with us. can you give us the latest if there have been any updates since last night? certainly. thank you for having me. first i want to express my profound sorrow to the families of the victims here in tulsa. i can t imagine what it would be like to be in that situation, as well as sincere thanks to our tulsa police, the highway patrol, the county officers and our first responders, they got the call and three minutes later they were in that building and we just couldn t have asked for more. so far, you know what i know at this point. we are still just taking a look and seeing, they have not released the names of the victims and we re just kind of waiting with bated breath. i
stage. i knew then after i read it an i knew it was taking place three days after the horrifi attacks that set the stage for forever wars we have yet t repeal that 2001 authorization it has been used over and over dozens of times, in areas whic have nothing to do with 9/11 it was a vote that was ver difficult. i need than that, first th timing of it three days after the horrifi attacks. we don t blink, my backgroun is political such a work you don t make decisions whe you re grieving, when your morning, when you re angry it was just a rush to do something given the horrific tragedy. it was not the right decisio for us for the members of congress to give any president tha authority to set the stage for you are right you are proven right when yo look back years later. i wanted to ask you about that
it is notable where you are seeing so much gun imagery. john avlon with a reality check. you know the onion headline, right, no way to prevent this as the only nation where this regularly happens. it cuts to the heart of our bloody american exceptionalism when it comes to guns. how did we get here? well, we don t blink at the fact that we had more mass shootings than days so far this year, where the mass shooting last night at a hospital in tulsa, which killed at least four people, is the 20th mass shooting in america since the slaughter of 19 school kids in uvalde, texas, just over one week ago. this isn t about the second amendment, it is not about self-defense and it isn t going to be fixed by thoughts and prayers. we all know on some level the stalemate is because of our politics and culture, gun politics, gun culture. take a look at our political ads. because they have been increasingly gone gun nuts. this is a frog in a boiling pot of water problem. the ads are local, so it can